Mattias Svensson har tidigare nämnt en mycket talande studie - exempelvis i Voltaire-artikeln Polis, polis, potatismos!:
När juristen och fettpanikskritikern Paul Campos bad
ett urval bantande kvinnor med genomsnittsålder 34 att göra en
avvägning mellan livslängd och vikt visade det sig att de var beredda
att i genomsnitt ge upp över fem års livslängd för att hålla sin
idealvikt. Hela 91 procent ville inte byta ens en liten viktökning mot
fem extra levnadsår.
Intressant i samma vackert lik-anda - från I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused:
A patient had surgery at our hospital. Some time postoperatively he had
a cardiac arrest. A code was called and someone attempted to intubate.
In our hospital, that would usually be an RT. The intubation was
difficult, anaesthesia was called and fortunately they weren't tied up
with some ortho "emergency" and intubated the patient with some
difficulty using a Bougie.
The patient survived and woke up in
ICU. Most people would be relieved and thankful but however the patient
also woke up with..... a broken tooth. Which they want someone to pay
to fix.
(Via Overlawyered)
Tidigare på temat:
- En kristen hyllning till späkandet
lördag 10 september 2011
Närproducerade operationer
Jag är ingen vän av närproducerat/självhushåll, men som tidigare refererade Cracked anger så finns det situationer med väldigt begränsade alternativ, och då får man ju helt sonika göra det bästa av tillfället - rubrikerna i artikeln 6 Insane DiY Surgeries You Won't Believe Actually Worked (artikeln uppenbarligen inte för den känsligt lagde):
- Cordless Drill Brain Surgery
- MacGyver Dialysis
- Do it Yourself Appendectomy
- Solo Caesarian Section
- Cutting Out Your Own Kidney Stone
- Self-Serve Sex Change
På temat så rapporterade också MSNBC om en självoperation som gick mer i normalfallets tecken: Shotgun blast ends wart woe, but triggers other problems
Tidigare på temat (bloggetikett): närproducerat
- Cordless Drill Brain Surgery
- MacGyver Dialysis
- Do it Yourself Appendectomy
- Solo Caesarian Section
- Cutting Out Your Own Kidney Stone
- Self-Serve Sex Change
På temat så rapporterade också MSNBC om en självoperation som gick mer i normalfallets tecken: Shotgun blast ends wart woe, but triggers other problems
Tidigare på temat (bloggetikett): närproducerat
Gränser
Gränser är ytterst grundläggande idioti, oavsett vad de avdelar.
Några bilder på temat (samtliga bilder klickbara för förstoring):
Från Niclas Wennerdal - USA till vänster, Mexiko till höger:
Från Daily Mail - via Chris Blattman:
Och förklaring:
Snaking for hundreds of miles across the earth's surface, this spectacular picture shows one of the planet's land borders like never before.The dramatic picture shows a bright orange line jutting across the earth, indicating the border between India and Pakistan.The stunning image of the earth, taken from the International Space Station last month, also shows busy cities show up as bright clusters hundreds of miles apart.
The Indian government sanctioned a move to erect floodlights along the terrain separating India and Pakistan in the Gujarat sector in 2003 to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking.
In previous years the border has regularly seen attempts at infiltration by terrorists, as well as the smuggling of arms, ammunition and contraband.
In total, the Indian government hope to cover 1248 miles (2009 km) of the 1800-mile (2900 km) India-Pakistan border with floodlights.
Från Marginal Revolution:
Och förklaring - från NPR:
The Port Authority — the body that proposed putting the bridge further south — had a monopoly over all bridges built in a 25-mile radius around the Statue of Liberty.
If the bridge had been built just a bit south of its current location — that is, if it had been built across a narrower stretch of the river — it would have been in the territory that belonged to the Port Authority.
As a result, the Port Authority — not the State of New York — would have gotten the revenue from
tolls on the bridge. And Dewey needed that toll revenue to fund the rest of the Thruway.
So Dewey was stuck with a three-mile-long bridge.
Today, the Tappan Zee is in bad shape, and the State of New York is looking into fixing or replacing it. But none of the proposals would move the bridge to a narrower spot on the river. It's too late now: Highways and towns have grown up based on the bridge's current location.
We're stuck with a long bridge at one of the widest spots in the river. The repairs are expected to cost billions of dollars.
Några bilder på temat (samtliga bilder klickbara för förstoring):
Från Niclas Wennerdal - USA till vänster, Mexiko till höger:
Snaking for hundreds of miles across the earth's surface, this spectacular picture shows one of the planet's land borders like never before.The dramatic picture shows a bright orange line jutting across the earth, indicating the border between India and Pakistan.The stunning image of the earth, taken from the International Space Station last month, also shows busy cities show up as bright clusters hundreds of miles apart.
The Indian government sanctioned a move to erect floodlights along the terrain separating India and Pakistan in the Gujarat sector in 2003 to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking.
In previous years the border has regularly seen attempts at infiltration by terrorists, as well as the smuggling of arms, ammunition and contraband.
In total, the Indian government hope to cover 1248 miles (2009 km) of the 1800-mile (2900 km) India-Pakistan border with floodlights.
Från Marginal Revolution:
The Port Authority — the body that proposed putting the bridge further south — had a monopoly over all bridges built in a 25-mile radius around the Statue of Liberty.
If the bridge had been built just a bit south of its current location — that is, if it had been built across a narrower stretch of the river — it would have been in the territory that belonged to the Port Authority.
As a result, the Port Authority — not the State of New York — would have gotten the revenue from
tolls on the bridge. And Dewey needed that toll revenue to fund the rest of the Thruway.
So Dewey was stuck with a three-mile-long bridge.
Today, the Tappan Zee is in bad shape, and the State of New York is looking into fixing or replacing it. But none of the proposals would move the bridge to a narrower spot on the river. It's too late now: Highways and towns have grown up based on the bridge's current location.
We're stuck with a long bridge at one of the widest spots in the river. The repairs are expected to cost billions of dollars.
fredag 9 september 2011
Värnplikt ÄR slaveri
Som tidigare nämnt anser jag att värnplikt alldeles självklart är slaveri, och så anser även Bryan Caplan:
Slavery is involuntary servitude; conscription is involuntary military servitude; therefore not only is conscription slavery; it's a particularly heinous form of slavery that often ends in maiming and death.
Och Robin Hanson:
Consider that “comfort women,” forced to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese military during World War II, are often called “sex slaves.” Would they not be slaves they were paid, served only for a limited time, could own property and vote, could not be bought or sold, and were seen by the Japanese public as serving their benefit and evoking positive emotions? Would such conditions also imply comfort women were not “raped”?
It is hard to believe that one must argue this point. OF COURSE conscripts are slaves.
Sedan till förstaträffen om man söker på 'värnplikt' på socialdemokraternas hemsida:
Vi bör istället ha allmän mönstring och i princip en allmän värnplikt för alla män och kvinnor. För att få ett kvalitativt och socialt mera allsidigt försvar bör vi ta vara på kvinnornas förmåga också till försvarsmakten. Rätt man är ofta en kvinna!
Slavery is involuntary servitude; conscription is involuntary military servitude; therefore not only is conscription slavery; it's a particularly heinous form of slavery that often ends in maiming and death.
Och Robin Hanson:
Consider that “comfort women,” forced to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese military during World War II, are often called “sex slaves.” Would they not be slaves they were paid, served only for a limited time, could own property and vote, could not be bought or sold, and were seen by the Japanese public as serving their benefit and evoking positive emotions? Would such conditions also imply comfort women were not “raped”?
It is hard to believe that one must argue this point. OF COURSE conscripts are slaves.
Sedan till förstaträffen om man söker på 'värnplikt' på socialdemokraternas hemsida:
Vi bör istället ha allmän mönstring och i princip en allmän värnplikt för alla män och kvinnor. För att få ett kvalitativt och socialt mera allsidigt försvar bör vi ta vara på kvinnornas förmåga också till försvarsmakten. Rätt man är ofta en kvinna!
torsdag 8 september 2011
Cancer is bad for you, m'kay?
Och ytterligare en rapport med intressant problemformulering - från Science Daily:
Cancer survivors are less likely to be employed, and they work fewer hours, than similarly aged adults without a history of cancer, even two to six years after diagnosis, according to a study by Penn State researchers.
Tidigare på temat:
- Extra: Cancer är hälsovådligt
Cancer survivors are less likely to be employed, and they work fewer hours, than similarly aged adults without a history of cancer, even two to six years after diagnosis, according to a study by Penn State researchers.
Tidigare på temat:
- Extra: Cancer är hälsovådligt
onsdag 7 september 2011
Mahahakt
Jag har tidigare citerat Boris Benulic [originalartikeln och även Neoblogginlägget numer borttagna]:
Jag blir alltid nervös när folk står och applåderar i politiska sammanhang och gör det mer än tre minuter. Håller man på längre så känns det litet som partidagar i Nürnberg oavsett vad som applåderas.
Ett annat uttryck för samma fenomen är gapskrattet - jag minns en gammal intervju med Norman Schwarzkopf, där han sade att en av de största fördelarna med att bli befordrad var att fler skrattade åt hans skämt, och följaktligen: With absolute power comes absolute guffaw - en av tio bilder på temat från New York Magazine:
(Via Radley Balko)
Tidigare på temat:
- Hyllningsceremonier
Jag blir alltid nervös när folk står och applåderar i politiska sammanhang och gör det mer än tre minuter. Håller man på längre så känns det litet som partidagar i Nürnberg oavsett vad som applåderas.
Ett annat uttryck för samma fenomen är gapskrattet - jag minns en gammal intervju med Norman Schwarzkopf, där han sade att en av de största fördelarna med att bli befordrad var att fler skrattade åt hans skämt, och följaktligen: With absolute power comes absolute guffaw - en av tio bilder på temat från New York Magazine:
(Via Radley Balko)
Tidigare på temat:
- Hyllningsceremonier
tisdag 6 september 2011
You win some, lose some
Lästips: Cracked
Gissningsvis känner de flesta redan till den, men Cracked är en så ständigt fascinerande källa av intressanta ämnen och humor att den inte kan rekommenderas nog. Klichén verkar vara att man kom för Seanbaby och blev kvar på grund av den genomgående höga kvaliteten, och så var fallet även för mig.
Ett exempel i mängden läsvärt från Cracked på sistone - ur artikeln 5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories - om Live Aid:
But a fundraiser like Live Aid doesn't work that way -- the money is given to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and in order to do their work, they have to work under, and obey, the bullshit government. In other words, all those piles of well-meaning cash wind up propping up the assholes who helped create the famine. It's like buying Christmas presents for the poor kids down the street, only to see the abusive dad sell them for drug money.
So for instance, the aid workers who traveled to Ethiopia were forced to exchange the aid money for the country's currency at highly inflated rates, thus inadvertently funding and reinvigorating the evil government. That money also helped fund the government's forced relocation program of thousands of starving people from the south of the country to camps in the north. It is estimated that one in six of those who made the journey died.
Did Live Aid feed a lot of starving people? No doubt. But as others have pointed out, it's entirely possible that the horrible things done with the cash killed as many or more people than the food saved. In the real world, good intentions don't always stand a chance against a bunch of shitheads with AK-47s.
Vidare skulle jag vilja lägga till Rock 'n' Roll High School i artikeln 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies - i nuvarande skick är den fantastisk (och Mary Woronov gör rollen som Mrs. Togar lika suveränt som hon gjorde Calamity Jane), men enligt kommentarsspåret så hade Roger Corman tänkt att filmen skulle handla om disco, och fick övertalas till att istället använda Ramones. Nu är det självfallet så att Roger Corman är ett geni och inte jag, men jag har svårt att se den filmen handla om något annat än Ramones:
(Direktlänk)
Och i 5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie skulle den tidigare nämnda Flightplanrecensionen passa in:
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
This story was obviously told by the survivors, but on closer examination, the truth reveals itself.
As the movie is told, we're expected to believe that Carson has planned a horrifically elaborate extortion plot with flight attendant Fiona.
Before we meet him, he's found Kyle, the jet's designer, killed her husband, planted explosives in his coffin, arranged to be the marshal on the flight Kyle chooses to fly her husband's body to the U.S., arranged for Fiona to be working that flight, and somehow changed public records to reflect the death of Kyle's daughter, Julia. OK, maybe. If he's the super-brilliant, criminal mastermind we're so used to seeing in the movies, that's all well and good.
But his plan is based on the idea that he's going to abduct Julia from her pathologically protective mother unnoticed. He anticipates that Kyle will go berserk looking for her daughter and give him free rein on the plane.
Pulease.
Perhaps no one seeing Jullia for FOUR HOURS is just a lucky accident that makes Carson's cover story more convincing. Bt that doesn't begin to cover it.
That he is able to spirit her away from her mother is bad enough. His little speech about being able to abduct the girl without arousing suspicion because he is a person of authority (authority not known at the time of the abduction!) is hogwash. If a man lays hands on a six year old girl, people look, even if he's wearing a clerical collar. Well... maybe that's a bad example, but you get the idea. Had anyone remembered him around the girl, his plans would have been done in.
And his meticulous plan demands that he FORESEE getting the child from her mother and taking the girl unseen, unremembered by anyone.
So here's what really happened...
Kyle was the mastermind. She scans the internet reading news, looking for the death of a father and child under suspicious circumstances. She abducts a child of the same age, drugs her (or him), stows her in a coffin and boards the plane masquerading as the bereaved spouse.
She pretends that her child is missing, runs amok, and then quietly relays her ransom demands to Carson. To everyone else, she maintains the pretext of looking for her daughter. This enhances her credibility at the denouement.
The money is transferred to the mysterious account and the plane is emptied, except for four people.With Fiona's help, Kyle overpowers Carson. She gets the girl and the explosives out of the coffin. Fiona goes out and confesses her part in Carson's plot. Kyle detonates the explosives, killing Carson - the only person who could refute any of this - and disembarks.
When the child begins to wake up, she drugs her again and drives off into the sunset. Later, she kills the child and dumps the body.
Fiona is arraigned; a mysterious friend posts bail.
Kyle and Fiona leave on an international plane under new identities for parts unknown. Now I'm not saying they're lesbian lovers, but you just never know, you know? --- I love Jodie Foster; tell me please did she read the whole script before she agreed to do this movie?
Ett exempel i mängden läsvärt från Cracked på sistone - ur artikeln 5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories - om Live Aid:
But a fundraiser like Live Aid doesn't work that way -- the money is given to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and in order to do their work, they have to work under, and obey, the bullshit government. In other words, all those piles of well-meaning cash wind up propping up the assholes who helped create the famine. It's like buying Christmas presents for the poor kids down the street, only to see the abusive dad sell them for drug money.
So for instance, the aid workers who traveled to Ethiopia were forced to exchange the aid money for the country's currency at highly inflated rates, thus inadvertently funding and reinvigorating the evil government. That money also helped fund the government's forced relocation program of thousands of starving people from the south of the country to camps in the north. It is estimated that one in six of those who made the journey died.
Did Live Aid feed a lot of starving people? No doubt. But as others have pointed out, it's entirely possible that the horrible things done with the cash killed as many or more people than the food saved. In the real world, good intentions don't always stand a chance against a bunch of shitheads with AK-47s.
Vidare skulle jag vilja lägga till Rock 'n' Roll High School i artikeln 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies - i nuvarande skick är den fantastisk (och Mary Woronov gör rollen som Mrs. Togar lika suveränt som hon gjorde Calamity Jane), men enligt kommentarsspåret så hade Roger Corman tänkt att filmen skulle handla om disco, och fick övertalas till att istället använda Ramones. Nu är det självfallet så att Roger Corman är ett geni och inte jag, men jag har svårt att se den filmen handla om något annat än Ramones:
(Direktlänk)
Och i 5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie skulle den tidigare nämnda Flightplanrecensionen passa in:
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
This story was obviously told by the survivors, but on closer examination, the truth reveals itself.
As the movie is told, we're expected to believe that Carson has planned a horrifically elaborate extortion plot with flight attendant Fiona.
Before we meet him, he's found Kyle, the jet's designer, killed her husband, planted explosives in his coffin, arranged to be the marshal on the flight Kyle chooses to fly her husband's body to the U.S., arranged for Fiona to be working that flight, and somehow changed public records to reflect the death of Kyle's daughter, Julia. OK, maybe. If he's the super-brilliant, criminal mastermind we're so used to seeing in the movies, that's all well and good.
But his plan is based on the idea that he's going to abduct Julia from her pathologically protective mother unnoticed. He anticipates that Kyle will go berserk looking for her daughter and give him free rein on the plane.
Pulease.
Perhaps no one seeing Jullia for FOUR HOURS is just a lucky accident that makes Carson's cover story more convincing. Bt that doesn't begin to cover it.
That he is able to spirit her away from her mother is bad enough. His little speech about being able to abduct the girl without arousing suspicion because he is a person of authority (authority not known at the time of the abduction!) is hogwash. If a man lays hands on a six year old girl, people look, even if he's wearing a clerical collar. Well... maybe that's a bad example, but you get the idea. Had anyone remembered him around the girl, his plans would have been done in.
And his meticulous plan demands that he FORESEE getting the child from her mother and taking the girl unseen, unremembered by anyone.
So here's what really happened...
Kyle was the mastermind. She scans the internet reading news, looking for the death of a father and child under suspicious circumstances. She abducts a child of the same age, drugs her (or him), stows her in a coffin and boards the plane masquerading as the bereaved spouse.
She pretends that her child is missing, runs amok, and then quietly relays her ransom demands to Carson. To everyone else, she maintains the pretext of looking for her daughter. This enhances her credibility at the denouement.
The money is transferred to the mysterious account and the plane is emptied, except for four people.With Fiona's help, Kyle overpowers Carson. She gets the girl and the explosives out of the coffin. Fiona goes out and confesses her part in Carson's plot. Kyle detonates the explosives, killing Carson - the only person who could refute any of this - and disembarks.
When the child begins to wake up, she drugs her again and drives off into the sunset. Later, she kills the child and dumps the body.
Fiona is arraigned; a mysterious friend posts bail.
Kyle and Fiona leave on an international plane under new identities for parts unknown. Now I'm not saying they're lesbian lovers, but you just never know, you know? --- I love Jodie Foster; tell me please did she read the whole script before she agreed to do this movie?
Aborter 2010
Ur Socialstyrelsens Aborter 2010 (pdf):
Under 2010 utfördes 37 693 aborter, att jämföra med 37 524 året innan. Antal aborter har därmed minskat något, från 21,3 aborter per 1000 kvinnor år 2008 till 20,9 per 1000 kvinnor år 2010.
Och:
Under 2010 genomfördes 20,9 tonårsaborter per 1000 kvinnor, vilket innebär en minskning med 7,1 procent jämfört med 2009.
Utvecklingen 1983-2010 i diagramform (jag vet inte varför Socialstyrelsen ändrat startdatumet från tidigare 1975 till nu 1983) [samtliga diagram klickbara för förstoring]:
Också intressant:
Och:
Också intressant på temat - Steve Landsburg:
Namely: The argument is made that zygotes/embryoes/fetuses, even at a very early stage, have the full moral status of human beings. Yet if that were true, surely we’d want to divert a substantial portion of the medical research budget away from relatively minor scourges like, say, cancer, to the spontaneous abortions that take the lives of something like 30% of these full-fledged humans. In a typical year, there are about 8 million cancer deaths worldwide; the number of early-stage spontaneous abortions must be at least twice that.
Tidigare på temat:
- Aborter 2009
Under 2010 utfördes 37 693 aborter, att jämföra med 37 524 året innan. Antal aborter har därmed minskat något, från 21,3 aborter per 1000 kvinnor år 2008 till 20,9 per 1000 kvinnor år 2010.
Och:
Under 2010 genomfördes 20,9 tonårsaborter per 1000 kvinnor, vilket innebär en minskning med 7,1 procent jämfört med 2009.
Utvecklingen 1983-2010 i diagramform (jag vet inte varför Socialstyrelsen ändrat startdatumet från tidigare 1975 till nu 1983) [samtliga diagram klickbara för förstoring]:
Namely: The argument is made that zygotes/embryoes/fetuses, even at a very early stage, have the full moral status of human beings. Yet if that were true, surely we’d want to divert a substantial portion of the medical research budget away from relatively minor scourges like, say, cancer, to the spontaneous abortions that take the lives of something like 30% of these full-fledged humans. In a typical year, there are about 8 million cancer deaths worldwide; the number of early-stage spontaneous abortions must be at least twice that.
Tidigare på temat:
- Aborter 2009
Johan Hedin om cannabis
Tyvärr hann jag inte få iväg inlägget på Bacondagen, men någon hamnade tidigare på bloggen via en sökning på 'johan hedin cannabis', så:
(Direktlänk)
Vidare i ämnet så kan det för survivalisten vara intressant att känna till att bacon kan användas till såväl ljus som batteri.
Tidigare på temat:
- Bacon!
(Direktlänk)
Vidare i ämnet så kan det för survivalisten vara intressant att känna till att bacon kan användas till såväl ljus som batteri.
Tidigare på temat:
- Bacon!
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